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CVE-2026-99188

Linux: net: stmmac: dwmac1000: clear the RGMII status interrupt

Linux LinuxOperating systems
CVSS
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ExploitationNo known exploitationNot in CISA KEV, which does not prove it is unexploitedCISA KEV
Exploit odds (EPSS)No scoreNo FIRST EPSS score in this snapshot yet
Fixed inNone listedNo source names a fixed version yet
Published28 Oct 2026Updated 28 Oct 2026CVE List

What fixes it

No source in this snapshot names a fixed version.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: stmmac: dwmac1000: clear the RGMII status interrupt

Since commit 2e2c878a3141 ("net: stmmac: remove SGMII/RGMII/SMII interrupt handling") nothing on the RGMII path reads GMAC_RGSMIIIS, so RGSMIIIS stays pending behind GMAC_INT_MASK from the first link change on. stmmac_resume() resets the MAC in stmmac_hw_setup(); the reset sets GMAC_INT_MASK to 0 until dwmac1000_core_init() writes the mask again, and the pending status storms the line:

dwmac_dma_interrupt: unexpected status 04000000

A register dump at the first message on ODROID-HC4 showed it:

core int_status 00000001 int_mask 00000000 pmt 00000000 rgsmiiis 0000000d

When the resume thread runs on the CPU that takes the MAC interrupt, the storm starves it: a soft lockup, then a watchdog reset or a hang.

Read GMAC_RGSMIIIS in dwmac1000_irq_status() when the status is not masked, as the driver did before 2e2c878a3141; the read clears it.

Wake-on-LAN resume from s2idle with the resume thread and the MAC interrupt on one CPU: Helios64 (dwmac-rk), 7.3-rc6, soft-locked in 3 of 3 resumes without a fix and in 0 of 10 with this patch; it ran with an out-of-tree dwmac-rk change that keeps the GMAC powered across suspend. ODROID-HC4 (dwmac-meson8b): 0 of 10 with this patch, 2 of 2 without a fix on a 7.3-rc5 build. irq_rgmii_n went up by one per resume.

Text from CVE List

Affected versions 6

  • Linuxaffected: 2e2c878a314175a4c3b76ee3be455f543438f472 before affc6d572935282ef9ab1e0b790cbc31e5ad8bcaCVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 2e2c878a314175a4c3b76ee3be455f543438f472 before aa07285705f8d5bac464eb1c5b7412f8e88b91e1CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 6.19CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: all versions before 6.19CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.2.13 through 7.2.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.3CVE List

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